A TV presenter at a Russian state-owned news agency quit his job and launched a scathing attack on Vladimir Putin ’s “insane” leadership, risking Moscow’s wrath.
Gleb Irisov, 31, said many of his now ex-colleagues oppose the war in Ukraine, leading to action by the FSB security service.
Irisov, who had been military correspondent at TASS, is also a former military translator who served in Syria and realised the horrors when several of his former comrades died on the first day of the illegal invasion.